Flashcards
Key policies and organisations Cold War
Cards in this deck (10)
- 1Teheran Conference, 1943Stalin wanted to punish + weaken Germany with reparations, but Churchill + Roosevelt wanted to rebuild Germany
- 2Yalta Conference, February 19451. Germany split into 4 zones.
2. Berlin split into 4 zones.
3. Countries of Eastern Europe allowed free elections. - 3Potsdam Conference, August 19451. Nazi party banned + leaders trailed as war criminals.
2. Oder-Neisse (2 rivers) to be the boundary between Poland and Germany. - 4Tensions at Potsdam Conference1. Roosevelt replaced by Truman.
2. Churchill replaced by Attlee.
3. Stalin wanted more reparations for Germany, whereas USA + Britain wanted Germany to recover – Stalin suspicious. - 5Truman Doctrine, 1947Political aid – Policy of containment of Communism in Europe.
- 6Marshall Plan, 1947Economic aid from the USA – aimed for the economic recovery of Europe to prevent the spread of Communism.
- 7Cominform, 1947Alliance of Communist countries – aimed to spread communist ideas.
- 8Comecon, 1949Set up to coordinate production and trade of Eastern European countries.
- 9NATO, 1949Military alliance of Western European countries to defend each other.
- 10WTO, 1955Communist version of NATO.